The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1887-01-15
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

the most healthy article Of food known
to man.
The Chinese claim to have discov-
cred the art of sneezing and to have
praeticed it two thousand years before
any other nation caught on.
A human skeleton weighs from ten
to sixteen pounds. and the blood of the
body about twenty-eight pounds, but
cremation leaves only eight ounces
Health Monthly.
The Chamberlain Cd. T. } Democrats
says that beets and carrots have grown
to such size in Brule County this
year that farmers are compelled to use
stump-pullers to pull them from the
ground.
-Patsey Collins, while shoveling
grain in the top of big Niagara Falls
Touring mill, fell into the hopper, slid
for eighty feet through spout eight
by ten inches in size and shot out, with
six tons of grain, into car standing on
the track below.-Bu6dlo Courier.
"A young medical student in Sacra-
mento tried the earth-cure on u sick
man and came within shave Of hav-
ing the lamp-post cure tried on him.
He hadn't got the patient covered
higher than his hips when he gave up
the ghost. San Francisco Ctronicle.
The Women's Christian Temper
ance Union of Cambridge, Crawford
County, Pa, persuaded the store-keep-
ers of the village to stop keeping
cigarettes after the exhaustion of tho
present supply, and then bought up the
supply and cremated philadelphia
| Press.
The life insurance agent had been
talking steadily for only an hour or SO,
when the victim, perceiving chance
TO get n word in edgewise, remarkod
"Do you know you remind me of sud.
den deathpo "IIow sopo Nobody
is safe from either Of you. - Texas
SiftingS
"A st. Louis man going through
one of the poorly lighted streets felt q
rat up his trouTers' leg, and pounded
the victim successfully with his cane.
| When he got the animal settled and
came to q light, he drew out his fine
gold watch, which had slipped down
his trousers leg 1t was something
worse for the pounding. Poor old
Missouri. = Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A triple wedding occurred u few
days ago at Verdigris Valley, Neb. Tho
three and only children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Tomec were at high noon united in
marriage to their hearts mates. Over
five hundred guests were present. Tho
grooms and their best men wore
badges and bouquets of orange bios
SONS and the brides and their attend
ants wreaths of orange blossoms.
Thomas Caldwell, of West Troy,
N. Y, recently traded horses with
George Brewer, of Smokey Tavern,
and shortly after the trade discovered
that the animal he had traded for was
balky and wind-broken. lie then
traded with the father of Brewer for u
three-year-old colt, which he also dis
covered was Of no use. Then he bor-
rowed rig from farmer and went
home disgusted. Troy Times.
The use of morphia by physicians
to suspend pain which they can not
cure is said 10 have become an abuse.
A Pittsburgh man has been found to
have one thousand and forty hypoder-
mic injection punctures in his body.
Many are snid to take the injections
for the soothing effect when nothing In
particular ails them, and thus fall into
q habit worse than drinking, which Is
the natural consequence. Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
Some one in Hudson, N Y, has
written to the Toronto Globe as fol-
lows: "As am n very rich man and
can easily afford it, have decided to
give the whole of North America TO
my wife, believing from my knowledge
of woman's nature that she will
govern you all wisely and we'll. As
am the legal husband of every woman
in the world, this includes every woman
on the Continent Ezra, King OF Eng.
land, North America, the World and
tho Church"
While the orchestra was playing
the prayer from "Rienzih in the Louis.
Vile Music Hall the other day vigor,
Gus baby struck in with lung solo
right in one of the most delicate pas
sages. Conductor Damrosch stopped
the orchestra and sat down. When tho
little one had been quicted he re-
marked that while it was a good thing
to give children musical education,
there was such thing as beginning
too early in life. Then he resumed his
baton and the prayer was resumed.
-"Speaking of insertions of genu-
inc mechanical character says an ex-
change, 1.-THE ordinary gas meter is
perhaps the most remarkable and most
profitable device ever constructed. So
very sensitive is it that the least re-
duction in the price of gas sets it into
much increased activity, and the lower
the price, the greater the activity OF
the meter; and it has been known,
when the family was away on a sum-
mer vacation, to remain at home and
keep industriously at work all the
time.
Talk about earthquakes" said
an old fiat boatman to me on the levee
the other day, "why that Charleston
shake-up was nothing. They are COM
mon on the Lower Mississippi. In
1858 l was tied up at the bank few
miles below Vicksburg. A shock came
along, broke all the lines and ran my
boat ten miles up the river before
could stop her. Large fish were thrown
out on the bank and killed. Then we
never thought about taking up sub
scriptions for earthquake sufferers. buj
Lad 10 paddle oar own canoes, ~
| In,gfs9.fJJa Iyoe1